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Page 2 ? February 4, 1985 Dateline THE GAMECOCK ( "> : \ H . ^ r?I;> _ jg /? Hfehfe- uflB HI - wKKtBSsKSaUBSBm JOE RICKER I The Gamecock Leaders of the band Andrew Gowan, associate band director, gets a little assistance from his son John, 3, as he directs the Pep Band. world today Explosion rips through Athens bar ATHENS, Greece ? An explosion ripped through a crowded bar Saturday nicht in a seaside suburb near the U.S. military base at the Athens airport and about 50 people were injured, including 34 Americans, officials reported. "It appears to have been a bomb," a police spokesman said, but another officer said the cause had not been determined. No individual or group asserted responsibility for the blast. A U.S. Air Force spokespman said 27 Americans were taken to the base hospital for treatment of cuts from flying debris and seven others who were seriously wounded were taken to local civilian hospitals. Crowd welcomes pontiff to Peru LIMA, Peru ? Crowds chanting Spanish rhymes and waving banners welcomed Pope John Paul U as he arrived in the southern Peruvian desert city of Arequipa on Saturday to beatify a 17th-century nun and say outdoor Mass at the foot of a dormant volcano. The pontiff arranged to return later in the day to this i BE FASHIONABI I BLACK SWEAT: I JEWELRY Ml 2909 Piatt Springs Rd. 3102 S GAMECOCK HEADQUARTERS 601 Reagan sends but to 'skeptical' Cor By Anociated Pren Reagan used his WASHINGTON ? President dress to urge Conj Keagan seni aavance copies 01 nis lyoo strong oiparusan e budget to an already skeptical Con- budget. House ! gress Saturday and said his $974 billion O'Neill, replying I plan that would cut domestic spending hour later, pledge by nearly $40 billion next year ? is hearing for the recc "the most exhaustive effort ever made But other Dcmoc to rein in government's chronic they will seek addi overspending." programs while try Reagan defended his call for increas- president's propos ing defense spending even while cut- Pentagon budget, ting or eliminating money for popular "It just isn't real domestic programs. "Every proposal that you can get yo is based on careful review of what make substantial r government should and should not do, enormous defici what's worked and what hasn't, what domestic . . pro we can and can no longer afford." Democratic Leader Under the proposed budget, defense Texas. in f\ nl/1 nrrvum K?i nnnrln CIA In f Kit Qnnof a opviiuiu^ "uuiu 51UW11 vjy iKai t) jjjw *11 IIIV, ^viiaiv, VJV. billion. would push for a 'Phil's very upset about it' 'Donahue' show vie By Associated Press NEW YORK ? Stung by its first hoax in 17 years on the air, the "Donahue" show is "very concerned" about the incident in which seven people faked fainting spells during a live broadcast last month, forcing the evacuation of the studio audience, a spokeswoman said. "We're looking into the incident," Penny Rotheiser, spokeswoman for Phil Donahue's syndicated talk show, said Saturday. "Phil's very upset about it," Rotheiser said. "It's a terrible thing to do to a show and to the audience at a show." It was revealed on Friday the fainting by seven members of the "Donahue" audience Jan. 21 was really a hoax orchestrated by trickster Alan Abel. He and actress Deborah Harmon, who had fallen at Donahue's feet while asking a question, admitted the stunt. sprawling, decaying capital to address a youthful audience Saturday night. John Paul, making his sixth trip to Latin America, traveled Satnrdav mnrnino tn Ari*miina milp? frnm I imn at thr foot of the volcano Misti and snow-capped Chachani Mountain. Deaf 'embezzler' to appeal CHARLOTTE ? A deaf man who says he took undelivered postal samples of sanitary napkins to help poor, hearing-impaired women plans to appeal an embezzlement conviction and try to win back his post office job. "I'm not going to give up," said James Dollard. "I'm going to keep on fighting until we win." Dollard, communicating by sign language and through interpreters, told jurors Friday he took 86 packages of sanitary napkins from the downtown post office. Eastern Airlines to resume talks MIAMI ? Eastern Airlines, in technical default on $2.5 billion in debts, will resume negotiations Monday for laboi LE - BE WARM SHIRT SPECIAL 1 Ml* [ FREE 6IFT I 295 Carolina I Watch fc M M95) >:^hM With Each 1 Purchase jg fAREHOUSE? I Broad River Rd. Decker Mall p S. MAIN Across from Honeycombs M i ,9ress weekly radio ad jress to join in a uuvg Speaker Thomas 1|":'kh ' ',; - ' ' : h'or Democrats an -nu d a "respectful" crowd to six more weeks Of winter. -,j immendations. "At 30, you can't believe in Sen:rats made it clear p^j ed8 $277.5 bill ion drove tWoHtfurJ vVith and Infant son to see the critter at the istic at all to think I Gobbler's Knob Zoo. ur total savings, or dOorto PhitVeUttirk^ eductions in these jy heated burrow was opened :tim of fainting hoax Abel said he was head of FAINT, or Fight Against Idiotic Neurotic TV, and the incident was meant as a statement in support of live TV and in protest of poor-quality TV. He said he wanted to "raise the consciousness of the public by going fy. unconscious." Abel has pulled other stunts on the media since 1959. He was shown on WCBS-TV in a phony editorial response seg ment and once fabricated his own obituary in The New York Times. Very few national programs are "live." Some news programs, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and "Donahue" are among the only shows that home viewers and studio audiences can see simultaneously. Shows such as "Late Night With David Letterman" and "Tonight," are "Live on Tape," meaning they arc taped before an audience and shown later. Organized stunts or inappropriate language can be edited out before the broadcast. : G contracts to complete an operations plan demanded by its creditors, a company spokesman says. The carrier, in negotiations last week, failed to reach final agreements with three unions representing 20,000 of its 37,000 workers. Eastern on Friday asked its 60 lenders, headed by Ohase Manhattan Bank, to extend a deadline for submitting a profitable operating plan for 1985 by two months, giving the airline time to reach agreement with the unions. ^ Time vows to check facts better NEW YORK ? Time magazine's editor-in-chief has vowed that facts will be checked "with even greater care" after the news weekly won a $50 million libel suit filed by Ariel Sharon, israel's former defense minister. "We must and will continue to make every effort to avoid errors," Henry Grunwald said in an internal memo to editors, writers, reporters and researchers. Grundwald said the magazine's methods of ensuring aci curacy are valid.' ? Compiled from wire reports ^ 17^1 AT 1 A? ? ? The GAMKCOCK i* the etucUnt jfV Q newepaper of the University of Houtli (WiM Md UpubltjUd three time* [,' tv \ I week on Monoare, Wedoeedtrs ud \ l\_. 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